Re:China's Great Cannon
by Buge on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:04PM
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The ideal answer is to convince the sites you visit to use https.
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If the Chinese government controls a single CA that's installed by default, couldn't they MitM any TLS connection that isn't pinning certs?
Are there any Chinese CAs in any browsers' default installs? If so, they should probably be removed immediately.
CNNIC is no longer trusted by Chrome due to recent incidents, and you can manually remove it from Firefox and IE. While you're at it, take a few minutes to browse the list and also remove anything that sounds Chinese.
If any website you visit legitimately uses a Chinese SSL certificate, you can whitelist it specifically. I actually do this for SSL certificates signed by my own country's CA (not China), and it works wonderfully.
I don't think, practically, we could expect anything positive from the other side. But still thanks.
Given that the Chinese government could inject malware into any insecure connection you make across the firewall, you may also want to do most of your browsing through a virtual-machine.